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No. 355,491. Patented'Jan. 4,1887.

,i UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

GEORGE LOVRIE WILEY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR 'IO THEA STANDARD UNDERGROUND CABLE COMPANY,- 'OF PITTSBURG, PA.-

CABLE-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,491, dated January 4,1887. l

Application filed June 19, 1F86. Serial No. 205,613.

and State of New York, a citizen of the United- 5 States, have invented or discovered certain new and useful Improvements in Cable-Hangers, ofwhich improvements the following is a specification. l

In the accompanying drawings, which make 1o part of this specication, Figure l is a View in end elevation of my improved hanger or support for aerial cables. Fig. 2 is a view ot' a portion of a cable and its suspending-wire, showing the hanger in side elevation applied i 5 thereto. p R

The invention herein relates to certain improvements in hangers or supports for aerial cables, and has for its object Asuch a construc- 25 struction and combination of parts, substantially as hereinafter described and claimed.

The hanger is formed of a spring-metal plate or strip, the upper end of said strip being bent or curled to form an eye or sleeve, 2, for the 3o reception of the suspending-wire 3. In order to permit of the ready application and removal of the hanger, the extreme end 4 of the strip is bent to form what might be termed a chord of the circle of the curl or eye, the portion 4 35 forming, in connection with the part of the strip opposite thereto, a wedge-shaped passage for the entrance of the suspending-wire, the width of such passage at itsouter end being slightly greater and at itsinner end slightly 4o less than the diameter of the suspending-wire.'l

Hence in applyingV the hanger to the wire the part 4 will be sprung back or inward by the suspending-wire, and when such wire is wholl y within the eye the part 4 will resume its norvcable into the eye.

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mal position, and thus prevent any accidental 4 5 removal of the hanger from the suspending wire. The lower portion of the strip is bent or curled to form an eye or sleeve, 5, for the receptionof the cable 6. A portion,v 7, of the strip atthe end thereof is bent outward, so asv 5o to project radially, or approximately so, from the eye 6, forming, in connection with the portion 8 of the strip adjacent to the eye, a` Wedgeshaped passage for the entrance of the between the eyes 2 and 5 is so bent as to bring the centers of said eyes into the same Vertical plane, as shown in Fig. 1.

In order to prevent the edges of thestrip at the ends of the eye or-sleeve 5 from cutting 6ov into the cable, which isy quite flexible, and therefore liable to bend around such edges, the latter are tlared outwardly, as shown.

rIhe hangers constructed as above described can be easily and quickly applied to and rek65 moved from either the cable or suspendingwire. This feature is especiallyT advantageous when new suspending-wires are substituted in lieu of the old ones, such change being frequently necessary. 7o

I claim herein as my invention- 1. In acable-hanger, the combination of the eyes or sleeves 2 and 5, each having an automatically-closing passage thereinto for the admission of the suspending-wire and cable, sub- 75 stantially as set forth.

2. In a cable-hanger, the combination vof the eyes or sleeves 2 and 5, each `having an automatically-closing passage'thereinto for the ad mission of the suspending-wire and cable, the 8o i vends of the sleeve 5 being outwardly flared,

substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my band.

, GEORGE vLOVRIE WILEY. Witnesses:

Jas. W. HALE, C. F. OOWPERTHWAIT.

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